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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to amend Contract Nos. 35020 and 35022 with Azteca Landscape, of Corona, CA, and Parkwood Landscape Maintenance, Inc., of Van Nuys, CA, for the provision of grounds maintenance services, to increase the annual aggregate contract amount by $859,580, for a revised total annual aggregate amount not to exceed $6,044,839, at the discretion of the City Manager. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
City Council approval is requested to amend Contract Nos. 35020 and 35022 with Azteca Landscape (Azteca) and Parkwood Landscape Maintenance, Inc. (Parkwood), to increase the aggregate annual contract amount by $859,580, to provide grounds maintenance services to the City of Long Beach (City) parks, open spaces, street medians, facilities, MTA Blue Line, parking lots, marina contract areas for the Parks, Recreation and Marine Department (PRM) and the Public Works Department (PW).
On August 14, 2018, the City Council awarded contracts to Azteca and Parkwood as part of its adoption of RFP PR17-022 for grounds maintenance services, for a period of three years with two one-year extension options and a subsequent three-year term with two one-year extension options, for a total aggregate contract term not to exceed ten years.
Since that time, additional sites have been identified and new sites are anticipated to be completed and turned over to PRM and/or PW for maintenance, which are not included in the current contracts. These sites include, but are not limited to, City medians, Sunnyside Cemetery, Wrigley Greenbelt, Red Car Greenbelt, Lincoln Park, and Willow Springs Park. To provide services at the newly developed park lands and maintain the horticultural standard in the City’s greenscape, an aggregate contractual increase of $859,580 is requested.
This matter was reviewed by Deputy City Attorney Gary J. Anderson on July 14, 2021, Purchasing Agent Michelle Wilson on July 6, 2021, and by Budge...
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